Miley Cyrus Back To “Raunchy” Self?

Truth rating: 0

By
Gossip Cop Staff | 12:55 am, October 22, 2018

(Getty Images)

Miley Cyrus did not go back to acting “raunchy,” despite a report from exactly one year ago today. Gossip Cop shot down the claim back then, with an insider assuring us it was untrue. Now 12 months later, it’s clear a tabloid’s story alleging Cyrus would return to being “naughty” was made-up and wrong.

On October 21, 2017, the National Enquirer asserted Cyrus was going to revert back to her wild child ways because her then current, relatively sanitized album, Younger Now, wasn’t a success. The supermarket tabloid predicted a year ago that fans should be prepared for “naughty Miley’s return.” To lend credence to its fabricated tale, the magazine quoted a supposed source as saying, “Expect the return of raunchy Cyrus really soon” since her cleaner “Hannah Montana” image was “not working” again.

It seems the magazine or its alleged “source” felt that, with the failure of Younger Me, Cyrus’ knee-jerk response would be to go back to the formula from her 2013 album Bangerz, which featured “Wrecking Ball” and its not family-friendly video. But, as Cyrus noted while promoting Younger Now in 2017, her more outlandish behavior from the past “doesn’t reflect who I am now.” And in the intervening year since the Enquirer maintained Cyrus would return to being “naughty” and acting “raunchy,” she has remained even keeled.

Occasionally, Gossip Cop looks back at stories from a year ago not to pat ourselves on the back for being right, but rather to point out to readers how certain outlets aren’t reliable. Revisiting busts from the past offers a perspective in which one can see whether or not a report was true or false over time. In this instance, a tabloid contended Cyrus was going back to her “raunchy” ways, but it appears it was just the magazine making the claim that was bad.